Global Heartland picture book Included are never before published

Included are never before published photos and stories about the design and development of IH products

It also explores how to construct an effective barbed wire fence

From the starting handles and pan seats of the 1930s to the four-wheel drive machines with computer-management systems common by the year 2000

many are still in use today as collector vehicles as well as working farm tractors

takes the reader back to when these machines were brand new additions to the farmer’s fleet

Global Heartland picture book Included are never before publishedThough often left out of the story of the making of the American Century, the farmers of the Midwest were at its center, fueling the nations growing power in the mid twentieth century. In Global Heartland, Peter Simons explores how, after decades of slipping to the margins of an urbanizing economy, these farmers assumed renewed strategic and cultural importance as they produced essential sustenance for overseas troops and food rations for a domestic